Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pregnant - a quiet, pale girl dressed in a calico wrapper, a sunbonnet and part of an old army uniform. He gets her into the boat, pushes off. From this point on it is the convict against the Mississippi-he trying to get the boat and the woman back to the guards, the Mississippi plunging him through thickets, over cotton fields, up past Vicksburg and down past Baton Rouge, past dead cows, bobbing outhouses; and leaving him the exhausted, hungry, indignant victim of nature on the loose...
When he tries to land at Baton Rouge, soldiers guarding the levee see his convict uniform, open fire. Out in the current again, the boat whirls downstream. Miles from nowhere, on an old Indian mound crowded with snakes, the baby is born. After six days the convict gets so he thinks, "It ain't nothing but another moccasin," when he steps on a snake...
...additional room to our home. . . . We set out seven shade trees and 25 fruit trees . . . have taken better care of the hens, cows, pigs, garden and truck patches. . . ." One Missouri tenant farmer's wife was so enthusiastic she sewed "Plant-to-Prosper" on her son's basketball uniform...
American League bigwigs, following in the four-year-old tracks of the National League, granted the Cleveland and Philadelphia clubs permission to play seven home games apiece under lights next year.* Both leagues compromised on a uniform ball for 1939: an American League (thinner) covering with National League (five strands instead of four) stitching-the one extra strand supposedly giving the pitcher a better grip on the ball...
...opera house of the U. S., Manhattan's Metropolitan, launched its 54th season, General Manager Edward Johnson and his associates found opera's financial and artistic graphs like those of the stockmarket. After a Depression, they appeared to be starting a slow, but not uniform long term rise. The statistics...